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A Primeira Batalha do Marne ou, na sua forma portuguesa, do Marna [1] foi uma batalha da Primeira Guerra Mundial que durou de 5 de Setembro a 12 de Setembro de 1914. Foi uma vitória franco-britânica sobre a Alemanha, em um dos momentos decisivos da Primeira Guerra Mundial. [2]
- Rio Marne
O Marne ou, na sua forma portuguesa, Marna [1] é um rio...
- Marne (departamento)
Marne, ou, na sua forma portuguesa, Marna, [1] é um...
- Rio Marne
Marne pode se referir a: Localidades. Marne (Iowa), nos Estados Unidos. Marne (departamento), na França. Marne (Holstein), na Alemanha. Marne (Itália) Outros usos. Rio Marne, afluente do rio Sena, na França.
- Background
- The Battle
- Aftermath
- See Also
The Combatants
Germany and France declared war on each other on 3 August 1914. Both sides expected a short war. Germany faced the specter of a two-front war, facing Russia in the east and France and Britain in the west. German strategy was to defeat France in six weeks and then turn its attention to Russia. As envisioned by the Schlieffen Plan (revised by Helmuth von Moltke), the Germans embarked on a rapid, circular, counter-clockwise offensive through Belgium and into France with the objective of capturin...
The Great Retreat
The Germans and the French had different strategies for what they anticipated would be a short war. France's top priority was to recover Alsace-Lorraine, lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. Germany's priority was to defeat France quickly, so that it could turn its attention to the Russians. Both armies at the beginning of the war believed that offence would prevail over defence. The French military philosophy has been characterized as the "cult of the offensive," a belief that...
The eve of battle
By 2 September, John Keegan said that "the German strategic effort, though neither Moltke nor Kluck perceived it, was beginning to fall apart". Moltke realized he did not have sufficient forces to carry out the Schlieffen Plan which envisioned the 1st army of Kluck encircling Paris to the west and south. Instead, he issued a Grand Directive changing the order of battle for the German attack. He ordered that Paris be bypassed on the north. The Germans would now attempt to entrap the French for...
"At dawn on 6 September, 980,000 French and 100,000 British soldiers with 3,000 guns assaulted the German line of 750,000 men and 3,300 guns between Verdun and Paris."Joffre had finally found the propitious time to end the Great Retreat and counterattack. The battle would take place in two distinct locations near southern tributaries of the Marne w...
The German retreat from 9–13 September marked the end of the Schlieffen Plan. Moltke is said to have reported to the Kaiser: "Your Majesty, we have lost the war."(Majestät, wir haben den Krieg verloren). On 14 September, German military authorities informed Kaiser Wilhelm II that "Moltke's nerves are at an end and [he] is no longer able to conduct ...
- 7-14 September 1914
- Allied Victory
The Marne (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is a river in France, an eastern tributary of the Seine in the area east and southeast of Paris. It is 514 kilometres (319 mi) long. The river gave its name to the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Seine-et-Marne, and Val-de-Marne.
La Marne ( /maʁn/ Note 1) est un département français, qui doit son nom à la Marne, rivière qui l'arrose. Il fait partie de la région Grand Est et de la Champagne historique. L' Insee et la Poste lui attribuent le code 51. Sa préfecture est Châlons-en-Champagne et sa plus grande ville est Reims .
